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The Senior Remote Night-Watcher

The raising popularity of security cameras had created a challenge of controlling and monitoring them. Along with installing a new camera comes responsibility in monitoring it. Usually, there is a rate of one watcher per several cameras creating a gap between the real time information provided by cameras and the time it usually takes the guard to notice security threat or act that needs his attention.

The idea is to create a micro-work business for seniors as remote night-watchers. Each security camera's video shall be forward to a remote person, who shall be enlisted to this job. The fact that one person is dedicated to a single camera is a key factor to create better human-eye guard functionality.

Tasks can include also monitoring services for the public sector as well. These remote guards can watch over lands, commercial infrastructures and even to alert from sea attacks (such as modern pirates). They can watch over public environments such as gardens and rest areas which on nights might be vandalized.

In order to ease the process of watching a usually still image for long periods, a concept of random camera watching shall be introduced. Each camera's view shall be monitored all the time, but the person who watches this camera is changing all the time. So the task for the remote guard is not boring while each camera is being monitored all the time by a human eye.

Another advantage of this concept is the fact that time differences between the monitored area and the location of the remote guard may ease the task. Watching a camera when your time zone is on night time is much harder comparing of doing the same task when you are in day time.

Beside the option to monitor and watch live surveillance cameras, the system can be used to help analyzing past records of cameras, for example, in a case where a security breach had already occurred and there is a need to search where was it source. Checking all cameras' records of several hours length may take a very long time. Using the distributed micro-workers system shall accelerate the analysis time and bring results very fast.

The idea is not to make this task as a "regular" job but as a short periods tasks, provided to the system's worker during their idle times. The micro-payments shall encourage those people to spend their spare time more efficiently by performing a simple task that they cane earn some money out of it.

How Security is assured?

Each remote guard is gaining credits according to the time he spend watching remote cameras. However, in order to make sure that he is focus on the job, a penalty system shall be maintained. In case a remote guard had neglected his duties and missed a security event, he shall not receive the credits he had accomplished.

On the other hand, in case a remote guard had catch an important event, a special bonus is granted to his account. In false alarm cases, it shall be depended on the customer's policy wether the guard shall pay a penalty or not.

As the cash conversion for credits shall be delayed, it shall encourage a continuous obligated remote watchers to keep doing their job, collect more credits without risking the lost of already collected credits.

Business Model

Camera owners pay a monthly fee per camera which they wish to be monitored. This payment is significantly low comparing to the price they should have paid if they hired a human guard to do this task.

This payment is split between the service operator and the guards who filled the watching tasks for this camera through the monitoring period.

Payment model may be differential, Camera owners may pay more for watching important but boring cameras comparing to watch less important locations.

Feasibility

In order to make this idea feasibly, a connection to the Internet is required from the camera owner and the remote guard.

As video quality of security cameras is relatively low, the bandwidth requirements are also low. Transferring such amount of data shall not be problematic even for developed countries.

In addition, since the remote monitoring task can be done everywhere, a remote guard may use his desktop and Internet connectivity or his SmartPhone (or even advanced cellphone) along with public Internet service to be able to receive the camera image.

Payments shall be made using secured payment services using micro-financing already existing methods.

In order to secure the information collected by the camera, Internet security and encryption protocols shall be used.

Main Features

Remote monitoring of security camera.

One remote guard per each camera.

Long term commitment for payment securing.

Methods to secure remote guard ethical behavior and responsibility.

Lower payment for camera's owner.

Relatively high payment for people for doing simple task over their spare time.

Short base task due to an expected large number of available remote guards.

Time Zone differences advantage.

Option to have more than one viewer per camera in order to increase security level.

Camera's location is anonymous. The remote guard does not know where is the camera located.

Option to support skilled monitoring for X-rays scanners at airports, etc.

This job opportunity is dynamic, adapted to the senior abilities and allow senior persons to keep themselves occupied with a purpose and some additional income.

Thanks for your comment.
The idea may be limited to local area security including children security, but as explain in the idea's details, it may be expanded to much more applications and even to secure sites abroad with different time zones - actually the time zone difference is the major strength of this idea, securing other region's night time during the watcher day time.

Thanks for your comment.
The idea may be limited to local area security including children security, but as explain in the idea's details, it may be expanded to much more applications and even to secure sites abroad with different time zones - actually the time zone difference is the major strength of this idea, securing other region's night time during the watcher day time.

this is a wonderful tool to keep seniors occupied and to let them earn some money and to feel still productive and useful. i think many people that are not old also going to love this idea and can work in this job when they no work - even during time in toilet ;-)

this is a wonderful tool to keep seniors occupied and to let them earn some money and to feel still productive and useful. i think many people that are not old also going to love this idea and can work in this job when they no work - even during time in toilet ;-)